 Welcome to this session on how to search for the websites of professional associations. Professional associations provide continuing education, networking and recruitment opportunities. Professional associations include not only associations but also boards, councils, institutes and societies to name but a few so start your research by listing the synonyms for the word association. Create a search string by joining these words together using the Boolean operator or. This means that search results can include any or all of these search words. Be sure to type the word or in uppercase so that the internet search engine knows that it's a command. The next step is to include a country domain in the search. To limit the search to only professional associations in Australia add site full colon dot au to the search query. From here the profession can then be added. Searching for nurse will include nurse nurses as well as nursing in the search. Using psych will include psychologist as well as psychological in the search. In other instances the profession as well as the work area or work areas may need to be included for a comprehensive search. The country domain can easily be changed for example to search for professional associations in New Zealand or in the United Kingdom. Another search method is to include the association domain dot ASN or the organization domain dot ORG. This can be joined with the country domain. The profession can then be added to the search. However search results will only include those websites with that domain in their URL. Your search could include the domains for both association or organization along with the profession. Note though that professional associations using dot com in their URL will not appear in a search results list using the association or organization domain limiters. Whichever technique you use a search for professional associations can be limited by domain for more relevant results. For more research help visit the Murdoch University Library.